Are Bono and Steve Jobs About to Go to War Again?

Broken friendships produce the bitterest feuds, which explains the big beef between Steve Jobs' Apple and Bono's Elevation Partners. Now Elevation is investing in Pandora, the beloved internet radio site edging ever closer to competition with Apple.

But in December, Apple acquired a streaming music service of its own Lala.com, and the business press immediately called the move a response to Apple facing "competition from other providers like Pandora." Given that Apple's iTunes not long ago added a "genius" feature that recommends music like Pandora does, it wouldn't be a surprise if the company's forthcoming revamping of Lala gave Pandora new (and well-funded) competition with some of its features.

If Apple and Elevation, and Jobs and Bono, are finally ready to bury the hatchet, they can take some inspiration from the pro-peace anthem penned by an Irish poet, who lamented, "The battle's just begun / There's many lost, but tell me who has won? / The trench is dug within our hearts / And mother's, children, brothers, sisters torn apart. How long / How long must we sing this song?"